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--- Mary Jones <mary@hidden.email> wrote:
> Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > --- Henrik Theiling <theiling@hidden.email>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Mind the bird flue...
> >
> > Oh, come off it! It's not like they sacrifice
> > birds in church! I'll just hope this was a
> > momentary lapse of social propriety on your
> part,
> > and not either a) a mere typo (a flue is
> > something a chimney has) or b) an extremely
> mean
> > spirited and totally uncalled-for swipe at
> (some
> > of our) religions.
> >
> I thought he was just making a comment about
> sharing the cup being a way
> to spread disease. Whether it is or isn't (I
> keep hearing different
> opinions) I don't know, but I didn't think it
> was a swipe at the religion.
>
> Anyway, shaking hands is probably just as bad,
> if not worse.
Much worse. Opening doors, putting your hands on
a counter, accepting change with bare hands,
holding a menu, holding the bar in the subway --
all of those are more likely transmission
vectors.
Thus far, bird flu has not converted to
human-human mode of transmission. All the (known)
cases have been due to contact with dead wild
birds. This has been kicked around the news a bit
recently, so, unless Henrik knows something about
bird flu that I don't, I am not sure why the
connexion between dead wild birds and taking
communion.
For what it's worth, there is some rather slight
risk of spreading diseases via sharing a
communion cup (note that this is n�t what happens
in the Eastern churches, where people are not
drinking out of a common cup). Most Protestant
churches have solved the problem by using
individual disposable cups. (Or by being
non-liturgical ;) ) I don't think the RCC is
moving in that direction, as it is perfectly
allowable to just take the bread.
Padraic.
> --
> Mary Jones
> http://www.maryjones.us
>
> "History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from
> which I am trying to awake." --James Joyce.
> Ulysses.
>
>
>
>
Almighty and Eternal God,
help us to realise that we are no longer the young and the restless;
but help us all remember that we have one life to live;
let us remain always close to you, walking not in Ryan's hope,
but in Christian hope, for our destination is Heaven, not J.R.'s Dallas.
May mothers and fathers of our community always pray to You "Bless
and protect all my children."
Like sands in the hour glass, so these are the days of our lives;
and so, as the world turns, and as some of us have to visit the Doctors
and the general hospital, may we always keep You dear, God,
as the Guiding Light.
Then, we won't be concerned with a foolish search for tomorrow,
walking on the edge of night. For together, dear Lord,
we will be able to create and build another world. Amen.
Rev. Carl A. Fisher, SSJ
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